Because taxpayers subsidize it with welfare benefits. Walmart encourages their employees to collect welfare, so profitable businesses like McDonalds and Starbucks and Staples are essentially having their low wages subsidized by taxpayer funded food stamps and Medicaid. Raise the minimum wage and they won't get away with it any longer.

The last time I checked, the governor was a Republican. And he was laying off teachers and government workers. Obviously, Republican austerity measures are just making things worse. NJ has one of the worst unemployment rates in the nation. Thanks to Republicans who insist on lay offs.

Rt 15 is a 2 or 3 land highway where slowpokes drive 40 mph in the left lane and the rest of us pass them in the right lane while doing the speed limit. Where there is a 3rd lane, you have speeders driving 80 or 90. It's probably the most unsafe road in NJ.

State funding comes from income tax while municipal funding comes from property taxes. The problem in New Jersey is that we are taxing wealth instead of income. Most states do it the other way around, that's why lower/fixed income people are overtaxed.

But Garrett is a far-right extremist. He brags about laying people off during high unemployment. He thinks dog fighting should be legal and is against all disaster aid. I think Rothman has a good chance at beating him.